She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
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Actor: Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Joanne Dru, John Agar, John WayneDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-06-04
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Movie Reviews of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Movie Review: The last patrol
Summary: 5 Stars
It's 1876, Gen. George Custer has just recently led the 7th Calvary to defeat at the Little Big Horn, and Capt. Nathan Brittles has less than a week to go until retirement. Before then, though, he has one last mission - to escort the fort's commander's wife and niece to a rendezvous point with the stagecoach that will take the two women eastward to civilization and safety. The trip won't be easy, though. Emboldened by Custer's defeat, formerly warring tribes are gathering together and joining forces against the white intruders.
John Wayne plays Brittles in John Ford's SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON, a big western with an elegantly clean and simple plot - get the women to the stage on time, get back to the fort alive. Much of the movie is played out against the backdrop of Monument Valley in Utah - the location most associated with Ford. Photographer Winton Hoch won an Academy Award for color cinematography on this one. Ford fills the cast with a number of regulars - besides Wayne, of course, there's Victor McLaglen as Sgt. Quincannon, comic relief and the biggest scene-stealer in the movie. Joanne Dru plays the niece who `isn't army enough' to tough it out at the fort, while John Agar and Harry Carey Jr. play two young lieutenants who battle for her attention. Ben Johnson, who'd win an Academy Award of his own for his role in `The Last Picture Show,' here plays a young sergeant on a fast horse, the scout who keeps track of the enemy (the party loses valuable time riding around, rather than through, the swiftly gathering foe.)
There are a number of books on John Ford, and I risk repeating what I haven't yet read by going on too long about him. One observation ought to suffice: Like most people I hate the hokey and the sugary sentimental, and I don't much care for directors who load their movies up with `em. Ford, who may have been the most macho director ever to come out of Hollywood, had a depthless love for men under arms. The horse soldiers in SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON are, typically, impossibly heroic and gallant. For instance, when a wounded soldier is brought into camp, he is framed heroically (if that makes sense,) resting his wounded head in the arms of a comrade while he gives his report to Capt. Brittles. Later, when we come upon a mortally wounded soldier, Ford tarries a while with him, not only giving him dying words to say, but a lengthy graveside service and burial. It's all too romantic and idealized to accept.
And yet every time I watch a Ford war movie - and they've all got scenes similar to this - I'm totally drawn in. Against my better judgment Ford makes me see the heroes he sees, thrill at their bravery and mourn their loss side by side with him. That has to be one definition of genius. For my money, SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON is one of the better Wayne/Ford collaborations, and one that ought not be missed.
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